His performance in ANOES Part 2 is one of the more underrated performances of the last 40 years. That movie has aged really well & his performance was awesome!

Part 2 is my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street movie and Mark did a great job playing a straight character.

Poor M.Patton, he deserved a life in Hollywood, instead he had to live in fear in hiding after Nightmare 2, so good to see him strong and talking in public nowadays.

This gave me chills so emotional to hear him speak from the heart gorgeous guy came here from watching Elm street 2

He was so brave to come out as HIV positive. He's a true beautiful person. He gives es others hope. True warrior.

This is the best Mark Patton interview I’ve ever seen! You have such a calming presence and a focused style and it makes the whole interview fly by while also being so interesting!

I always love watching Nightmare 2 for the whole "I love you Jessie!" and his response was like "I value our friendship Lisa!" No heat to that realtionship at all...Grady on the other hand.

Justin, You have become one of my favourite interviewers in style, tone, and because you always seem willing and to be able to comfortably go to deeper and darker subjects or moments in people's lives without it feeling like an invasion just by watching whether super familiar with them or not. You are so consistent in getting really good, genuine, and revealing interviews out of people. They stick with you. It's really impressive and so enjoyable and informative to watch. This was just another beautiful example of that. Mark was a great guest and I'm so happy he is able to share more about that history that was visible and invisible at the time and because of both the pain and progress seems to be easily 'forgotten' by some and missed knowing about by others- despite it being relatively recent history. I'm looking forward to watching the film. This interview went in a different direction than I anticipated at the start (not being a big horror fan, and with the million and a half other news stories a day, I hadn't seen anything about the work/talks Mark has been doing since he was 'found' years ago). This 44 minutes went far too quickly! Anyways, I hope you're well and thanks for this. I found it deeply moving in both happy & sad was. And nostalgic's the wrong word but, evocative of a different time in life with those similar mixed highs and lows and people who disappeared so quickly. too quickly. It feels a million years ago and yesterday all at once. Anyways... thanks x

I love mark. I was 9 when part 2 came out so I never tapped into the gay aspect of the movie til years later. I have mad respect for Mark and adore him to this day. He’s a lovely person and has such a strong presence in the horror and gay community. Well done interview 👏🏻

Pardon my french, but man, Mark Patton kicks ass. It was intriguing to hear his stories about 1980s Hollywood and how he just decided to walk away rather than to deal with all the homophobic crap. Most other actors would've caved in and got a beard (or married a woman a la Rock Hudson). Yes, there's been a lot of strides for LGBT actors, but I'm sure that it still happens even today. Great interview, and I hope to one day see his documentary "Scream, Queen".

Fantastic interview! Two amazing and inspiring men! Thank you.

I know it sounds dumb but I never thought Mark Patton's character was gay! It's only years later that l read about gay subtext.

Wow what a interview. I just watched Scream Queen, My Nightmare on Elm St And this interview compliments it nicely. Thanks for the insight interview!

This was such a great interview! Thank you for interviewing so many of my NOES favorites ❤️

What a lovely articulate gentleman. I really enjoyed watching this interview and I'm looking forward to watching the documentary.

Superb interview , i always wondered what happened to mark after elms street 2 Liked and subbed

I love Mark Patton! Nightmare 2 was probably the first gay movie I saw when I was 8 years old. Best actor in the entire Nightmare franchise IMO

Loved the pictures of mark and kim behind the coach

Wes Craven ignoring Nightmare 2 for his story involvement in Nightmare 3 sort of began a tradition that’s much more common nowadays: The creator of a franchise returns, and ignores everything that was previously done without them. James Cameron did this with “Terminator: Dark Fate” (which I loved) John Carpenter with the recent Halloween movies, etc. That said, I enjoy both Nightmare 2 and Nightmare 3 as very different movies, and people ought to watch and appreciate each of them without it being some kind of a contest.

He is a good actor and he was (is) really good looking, which I guess is why he was so popular, but it just sucks that he left the industry because he could have been blazing trails for years, but thank God he’s back.

23:33 is heart breaking. Those poor men.

Beautiful interview. Love Mark Patton, thanks!

I can understand why Mark's Dad liked Dolly Parton! Dolly had a huge pair!

Great interview!!!

I can’t take my eyes off of Karen in jimmy dean! She is incredible in everything. You are soooo lucky! ❤️ goddamn, that was a good conversation! Great interview.

What a frigging AWESOME interview!!! As someone who has degrees in journalism & psychology, this is a great study in how to conduct a thought-provoking, honest and sincere interview with their interviewee. From the very beginning (plus the body language at how both men are sitting), Justin not only makes Mark feel welcome & comfortable, but he makes us, the viewers, the same way. I had just turned 14 years old when Nightmare 2 premiered in the theaters and I was getting bullied about being gay and it was watching this movie & Mark's performance that I now can look back and see why I was very interested in "Jesse." As a 51 year old HIV+ gay man (coming up on my 20 year anniversary of my diagnosis on March 22nd, 2023), I'm glad that Mark has found a healthy way of dealing with something that obviously destroyed him as a young gay man. I see that Mark's health has taken a turn for the worse this January and I am sending him all the love and strength I can give him!

Great episode brother!!

He was great in Nightmare 2.

Great interview! Hugs from Hungary

Love this guy

"I don't think Bob Shaye even read the script." I've heard most producers don't read screenplays - which explains a whole lot.

Thank you for posting this interview. I had seen the documentary trailer for Scream, Queen! some months ago and so I decided I will watch the second movie. I have just seen the movie Elm Street Part 2 for the first time yesterday, I really enjoy the psychological part of Freddy and Jesse. Date Stamp: 22nov20.

Mark Patton,IMO plays the best character in the best Nightmare film.Fantastic as Jesse and what a propper gentlemen.👍👍👍👍👍

I've been watching your interviews, I loved them!!!!, you create a lovely atmosphere with your guests!.

You have to give props to A Nightmare 2 that it tried to do something new instead of being a retread like nearly every other horror sequel of the time. It's certainly alot more enjoyable than Freddy's Dead for example

Great interview!

He looks, totally, different

He went out with Timothy patrick murphy who was in dallas passed at a young age

Legend

They really should give Mark a cameo in Stranger Things 5, now that they’ve become totally up front that Will is gay and struggling with the closet. The realization hits you: That character’s entire story is a years-long revamp of Jesse in Nightmare 2.

Naquela época a molecada não notava as franguices ...mas vendo o filme hoje detona totalmente o terror e vira um cabaré.

I read that Mark made an audition for Glen role for the first nightmare on elm Street but he lost for Johnny Depp.

This is a great interview

I love Kathy bates 😍

thank you

Yaaasss 💜👍

i never know he was gay he was great in nightmare 2

We need more LGBT horror.

Patton is right, Nightmare 2 made more money at the U.S. domestic box office than the original. Legacy is a different thing, but he's right about the numbers. So many people are just stupid and believe what they want to believe. I still run into morons who believe that Van Halen sold more albums with Sammy Hagar than David Lee Roth because of the chart positions of the albums at the time (the truth is quite different, VH with Roth have sold a certified 34 MILLION units in the U.S. as opposed to 18 million with Hagar). But lots of LIARS in society know how to drive a narrative, and they know if they just keep lying over and over and over again people will eventually believe the lie. Donald Trump is a master at this. He's a diabolical human being, be he understands how gullible and clueless the average person is when it comes to bullsh*t. Nightmare 2 is a good film. Freddy had not yet become the "caricature" that he would arguably become starting with part 3 and beyond. When the audience is cheering for and laughing at the killer in a horror film (like audiences did in 3 and beyond) the point of the horror film/s itself is lost.

Wow, he is so right. I was knocking on fame's door myself once and was so turned off by the entire aura of Hollywood. You simply could NOT be gay back then. When he said it destroyed so many lives, he's spot on. For some clarification there, I met producers and was sized up and down and all around. I was promised this and that, BUT, it ALL came down to that ONE thing. Sexuality. I remember a meeting with a big time producer at his vacation home in Key West, Florida. He answered the door naked, with only a towel covering his junk. Not even wrapped around him. Just holding it over his business and let me explain, this was NOT an attractive man. He was a total cigar smoking, wine guzzling, sweaty obese disgusting man. So, when he realized I was totally not INTO anything he had to offer, which SCREAM was coming soon and he had worked with Neve Campbell, I was 100% blacklisted by that fat bast*rd. But, it's whatever now. I'm comfortable and writing, so revenge will be mine now that Hollywood is finally being EXPOSED. Thank you Mark, I didn't love part 2 particularly, but I absolutely LOVE your story because it's RAW TRUTH. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You helped me set aside those bitter feelings!

43 year old straight man here. I never realised the film was gay as a kid, camp definitely, but I always thought Jesse acted like most young lads would act in that situation. Still love the film now and still don’t think it’s overly gay. Maybe you have to be gay to pick up on a lot of the sub text.